Riding-saddle



T. J. WINT.

RIDING SADDLE.

(No Model.)

Patented June 23 JJVVEJVTOR ZZeadaraJW Attorneys" N PETERS. MW:la-Manon. D (L UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE JONATHAN WVINT, OF FORT LEAVENVORTH, KANSAS.

RIDING-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,522, dated June 23,1885.

Application filed April 2, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, THEODORE J. Wnvr, Fourth Cavalry, United StatesArmy, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Leaven worth, inthe county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Riding-Saddles, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in riding-saddles; and itconsists in a saddle having the side bars connected at the pommel andcantle by means of curved arms forming an arc of a circle, and thatslide in aline with each other, so that the side bars of the saddle maybe adjusted to any desired angle, and thereby adapted to fit the horsesback, and means for securing the curved arms together when the requisiteadjustment has been attained, as will be more fully set forthhereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of aMcClellan saddle with my improved adjusting devices applied thereto.Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations ofmodified forms of my adjusting arms.

A represents a saddletree, of which B represents the side bars, 0 thep'ommel, and D the cantle. The portions of the pommel and cantle abovethe space between the upper edges of the side bars are cut away, asshown, and the side bars are connected together by semicircular arms athat are formed with foot-plates Z), and secured to the side bars of thesaddletree by means of bolts, rivets, or screws. Two

. pairs of these curved arms are used for each saddle, one pair beingsecured to the side bars at the pommel, and the other pair being securedto the side bars at the cantle. These curved arms bear against and slideupon each other, and are provided with slots a in their ends. A bolt orstud, a projects from each of the arms and enters'the slot of theopposing arm. Nuts a are screwed-on the projecting ends of the bolts orstuds, and serve to clamp the arms together, so as to render themimmovable when the proper adjustment of the side bars has been attained.

By means of thesemicircnlar sliding arms it will be understood that theside bars while being adjusted will move from the axis at z,

changing the angle of the bearing-surfaces of the bars to each otherfrom their axis, each of the side bars having a turning motion from oron the upper edge of its bearingsurfaee, by this means causing theangles of the bearingsurfaces of the side bars to correspond with thoseof the horses back without materially opening or closing the spacebetween the upper edges of the side bars.

My improved adjusting devices are also well adapted to be applied topack-saddles, and effect the same result and operate in the same way.

I am aware that it has been heretofore pro posed to connect the sidebars of a saddle together by means of arms adapted to slide in a linewith each other, so as to adjust the side bars laterally, and widen ornarrow the space between them, and this I disclaim.

My invention differs from this in that the connecting-arms are curved toform the true are of a circle, and by this construction I am enabled toadjust the side bars of my saddle to any desired angle withoutmaterially widening or narrowing the space between the in ner upperedges of the side bars, and thus adapt the bearing-surfaces of the sidebars to the angles of-the animals back, which is nee essary in order tofit the saddle to the back.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A saddle having side barshinged together at the pominel and cautle by curved arms forming an arcof a circle, and that slide in a line with each other, to enable theside bars to be adjusted to any requisite angle, the pivotal points oraxis being on a linewith the upper edges of the bearing-surfaces of theside bars, and means for clamping the curved arms together,substantially as described.

2. The combination of the side bars, 13, and the curved arms a, formingan arc of a circle, and adapted to work in a line with each other andadjust the side bars, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own lhave hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE JONATHAN WINT.

Vitnesses:

J. J. UPHAM, G. H. llIURRAY.

